blacktooth

Been listening to the album the whole night, and I definitely cannot stand the engineering. The guitars are my main problem: I cannot take how 'broken' and badly compressed they sound. I agree with Saishu: the lower the volume, the better it sounds. Also, geist is right about getting a different experience with each different audio device. Sadly, I listened to it on studio monitors and on professional mixing headphones (no pre-EQ) and it has a lot of problems.
 
I also listened to the album on some low-tier Sennheiser HD 202, which have an acceptable bass boost, and it sounds kinda better. Later, I'm going to listen to it on my cellphone with the worst earbuds I can find: that's the true trial by fire for me. And finally, going to try listening to it on some DT-770 tomorrow!
 
Also, I was so upset about the mixing/mastering that I decided to play with the songs a little. I created more headroom, used some RX6 to cut some reverb and crackle and then 'uncompressed' it and applied a basic mastering chain. I'm REALLY far from an audio engineer, but I think it sounds more bearable, especially the distorted guitars. Also a lot of extra layers like the synths (or violins?!) on 'Zetsuentai' cut better through the mix. I still can't get around how loud the cymbals sound tough. May upload it later, but I still have faith the CD-rip is going to be more bearable.
 
What's just really fun about all this is that a YouTube user named Yurameki uploaded almost every song of the album to the aforementioned site and it all sounds better. Weird thing, considering YouTube tends to compress the audio, sometimes causing a drastic quality loss.
 
But to be honest, aside from the production, I'm enjoying the album more and more with each listen, especially the second half. The last four songs are amongst the best the band has composed in years.
 
 

so y'all i kinda love this
its different from everything, but i sign up for DEG because every album is a clusterfuck of new shit...I don't really take them that seriously tbh. They used to be my kami band but like, they're messy queens first and foremost and i love them for that. The A&B concept is pretty fun, but listening to B makes me wonder why A wasn't basically that--then i remember all the headbanging fun and im like okay nbd

If you truly love Deg, you hate Deg. 

Seeing the spectrogram made me laugh, then weep.

Fingers crossed HARD that the CD rip sounds better.

Seeing the spectrogram made me laugh, then weep.

Fingers crossed HARD that the CD rip sounds better.

The album need more synth

If you truly love Deg, you hate Deg. 

Nah we use romaji around here
shitto o rippu kure!!
shigoto de kikitai!

Too much of a good thing could be detrimental to their approach to human darkness.

If you truly love Deg, you hate Deg. 

The vocal melody in the chorus of Followers gives me STRONG 90s j-pop vibes.

I just love the way Diru threads always dramatically escalade from "fuck these guys" to "OMG I love it."
 
truly the most hated and loved bands ever.

Stacked Rubbish, Rubbish Heap... I mean, it makes sense. 

it must have been one of the dumber heavy alt rock riffs that were featured in the previews with the shit mallcore guitar tone and trying to ignore the shit album cover
 
and my alcoholism 
 
 
edit: the intro riff from rubbish heap could have been straight from NINTH. somehow, gazerock caught up to 

Did they forget to master the album? most of the songs sound really muddy have serve clipping and worse some vocal parts sound like they were just slapped into the mix with no effort to mix them properly at all.

I'm kinda used to diru albums having this heavy reverb and recording in a public toilet sound to them but I feel this is even worse.

I hope the cd sounds somewhat better -__-

Now the positive, most of the songs are great they have a pretty wide variety to them ( I love followers and 谿壑の欲  <3) 

I just wish at this point we could have Яyo Trackmaker master all Japanese metal as he seems to be the only person who has any grasp of audio engineering.

I do like the A/B thing this album has going but the pacing is a big issue. I rarely leave Deg album tracklistings be so I'll probably be tweaking some things around for a while.

I think rearranging the track order could do this album great justice to fix the flow and balance it out better. Got any suggestions? 

I think rearranging the track order could do this album great justice to fix the flow and balance it out better. Got any suggestions? 

My boss moved a meeting up an hour when I was planning on listening to this. Maybe I'll just have him listen in too.

It all makes sense now. Big Bass has been encouraging Kyo to break out into the hip-hop scene.

It all makes sense now. Big Bass has been encouraging Kyo to break out into the hip-hop scene.

Imagine my face when I woke up and both the album and band thread had 10+ people posting only to find out it's people talking about Gene "Long Dong" Wong.

Piracy machine broke